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Is there a 'right' religion...if so which one is the right one, and does that mean that all the others are false?

JestAJester · 31-35, M Best Comment
I get tired of this argument. Who cares which one is right? What matters is what you do and what your intentions are. What matters is that you live a full and respectable life. If a God exists and he is a just god, he will see your good deeds and reward you accordingly. He will not look at what clubs and parties you're a member of, he'll look into your soul so to speak.
@JestAJester [quote]If a God exists and he is a just god, he will see your good deeds and reward you accordingly.[/quote]

That would be nice but it doesn't work that way. According to God's Word, no one can earn their way to Heaven by good works or good deeds. It takes believing and taking God at His Word; believing and trusting in His promise to save us. God is the one that gives us salvation....not us. It is a free gift, for the asking. That's what the meaning of Grace is. Unearned favor from God for all who wish to have salvation. You never have to earn a gift and God loves every one of us and turns no one away.
JestAJester · 31-35, M
@LadyGrace then I don't want it. I cannot be expected to give total trust and loyalty on a whim
@JestAJester Jesus did the [b]hard[/b] part, of dying on the cross so that we could have heaven. All you have to do, is trust him enough to save your soul. That's not really asking much, but the benefits are so much better than the gym. They last forever.

Musicman · 61-69, M
Yes. Christianity and yes, the rest are false.
Natasmai · 56-60
@Musicman that's funny, all the other religions say the same thing!
AndysAttic · 56-60, M
@Natasmai Fascinating isn't it.
Natasmai · 56-60
@AndysAttic indeed! They can't all be right, so which one is it? Or maybe it's none of them?
SW-User
I can only speak of how I see it. In speaking of T.S.Eliot some one wrote of how he would often allude to various Religions in his poems. This is the full quote:-

[i]Eliot feels no compunction in alluding to the Bhagavad Gita in one section of the poem and Dante's Paradiso in the next. He neither asserts the rightness nor wrongness of one set of doctrines in relation to the other, nor does he try to reconcile them. Instead, he claims that prior to the differentiation of various religious paths, there is a universal substratum called Word (logos) of which religions are concretions. This logos is an object both of belief and disbelief. It is an object of belief in that, without prior belief in the logos, any subsequent religious belief is incoherent. It is an object of disbelief in that belief in it is empty, the positive content of actual belief is fully invested in religious doctrine.
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This points to how each and every one of our world's Faith Traditions can actually be the means to "salvation" or "enlightenment" - call it what you will.

Obviously the fly in the ointment are the "One Way" Christians who insist that their way is the sole truth, the only way. Regarding such it has to be said that the verses always cited in support of their claims can be understood in ways beyond their own comprehension. Thus, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me" can be understood as the Voice of the Eternal Logos ([i]through Whom all things are made[/i] - as per St John's Gospel) rather than a declaration by the historical Jesus of time and space.

Again, the "No other name" passage found in Acts can be understood in the light of the following way of understanding/interpreting Scripture, as per the Catholic Church:-

[i]To search out the intention of the sacred writers, attention should be given, among other things, to "literary forms." For truth is set forth and expressed differently in texts which are variously historical, prophetic, poetic, or of other forms of discourse. The interpreter must investigate what meaning the sacred writer intended to express and actually expressed in particular circumstances by using contemporary literary forms in accordance with the situation of his own time and culture. For the correct understanding of what the sacred author wanted to assert, due attention must be paid to the customary and characteristic styles of feeling, speaking and narrating which prevailed at the time of the sacred writer, and to the patterns men normally employed at that period in their everyday dealings with one another. [/i](Dei Verbum, III, 12, 2)

But whatever, as I see it, Grace is One. The very nature of Reality. It unfolds in infinite ways according to the uniqueness of each human being. Those who would seek to set parameters to it are not guided by the Spirit, but by their own limitations of understanding, born of dogma and the conditioning of particular theologies of time/space learnt often in childhood.

[i]The spirit blows where it will [/i] - as is said.
When will people believe what God says? Religion has nothing to do whatsoever with salvation. It has to do with the promises of God to save [b]anyone[/b] in this world, who wishes to invite Him into their hearts and lives as their personal Savior...period!
exchrist · 31-35
@LadyGrace absolutely
SDavis · 56-60, F
What sets Christianity different from all other religions, even Judaism which Christianity derived from is belief in Jesus Christ/Yeshua hamashiach. Christianity believes in the Creator of all heaven and Earth and the lives there in.

And just about every other religion believes in a god of some sort that created all things - not sure about Spiritualism - I believe they believe they're one with the universe (which is also true, we are one, what man has determined to exist in the universe, also exist on Earth, and humans are of the elements of the Earth).

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - as far as my knowledge is - are the only religions that states there will be judgment of all, sentencing to death or eternal life - according to the works one did while living on Earth. The three are based on the belief of man during the time of Adam, to Methuselah, to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob - which is called Judaism these days.

That sets Judaism Christianity Islam apart from all other religions. Man has theorized Hinduism is the oldest but actually the belief system of Judaism is the oldest. Passed down from generation to generation from the days of the first man whether it was 6,000 _ 10,000 _ 100,000 years ago.

I stand behind Christianity and accept Judaism as the beginning - what they now call Judaism is in the Christian Bible, which we call the Old Testament.

I believe Christianity is true - Judaism is true with the exception of their lack of belief in the Divinity of Christ. The other religions are not false because they exist but the entities they consider as gods are not the, is not the true God of this Earth but is/are false gods.

The world has no excuse these days!
SDavis · 56-60, F
@SW-User I don't persecute nor do I spread the word to persecute. Another error on your part in your analysis of who I am.

And very few Christians of this modern society are actually hostile or treat any non-Christian in an ill way a persecuting type way. It is **mainly** the non-christians that are hostile and treat certain groups in hostile ill type manners.
SW-User
@SDavis Sorry, you seem to have gone off at a tangent. I can't follow you. You seem unable to follow me. We seem at cross purposes.

All the best
SDavis · 56-60, F
@SW-User no I haven't went off on a tangent I asked questions trying to understand what you were trying to say.
And from your initial reply I understood we were at Cross purposes.
All the best to you too - goodbye
ProphetOfFarblesnozz · 51-55, M
Of course there is a right religion! One must follow the teachings of Farblesnozz as outlined in the Holy and Perfect Gliberoo!
4meAndyou · F
In my opinion, and only in my opinion, God loves ALL of us. I don't think God is going to sit there at Judgement Day and dump millions and millions of Buddhists or Muslims or people of ALL the non Christian religions into the fire just because their nations and their cultures were non Christian.

I believe, deeply, that our God is a God of love and compassion, and boundless mercy. In my opinion, once again, I believe that God exceeds the paltry religions taught by man...He goes so far beyond us and the thoughts of which we are capable, that we must have these tiny boundaries to even BEGIN to comprehend Him.
Torsten · 36-40, M
there is always a right religion to those who are religious. Funny how we all made it into the "right" religion and everyone else following other religious beliefs are misguided.

If a religion works for you, that makes it right and considering religion works based off faith and beliefs, its safe to say that you wont believe in any other views that contradict your own.

Im Pagan and i think Christianity and all other religions sounds absolutely absurd, yet im sure they think the same about Paganism.
it is what it is, just find whats right for you
Queendragonfly · 31-35, F
I think Taoism is the religion that makes most sense and do the least harm. It stands out from the other ones with their strict rules and truths.
exchrist · 31-35
No they are all 'right' in that they served a purpose when they were introduced. Times change observative conclusions abound. Rewritten for accuracy. Idk if any of them are even accurste let alone right. The untranslated ones are more accurate? Buf is thst right/orrect? Idk i wrote my own. More modern more inclusive. Is it right or just in a more common/modern vernacular?
Thats up to the reader.
Alyosha · 31-35, M
Religions are true and false just as everything else is.
SW-User
@Alyosha Yes,the world of opposites through which we have to navigate with care.
AntisocialTroll · 56-60, F
I worship our lord Cheesus. Cheese is the one true god.
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AndysAttic · 56-60, M
@jshm2 Thanks for your input Jism.
@AndysAttic I was eating a jalapeno when I read that, and the juice shot at my nose!
SW-User
@AndysAttic Oh yes, I always look forward to his insightful posts. This to determine if the OP is either banal or tedious - or perhaps both.

😀
Bumbles · 51-55, M
Whichever one is the most supportive of liberal democracy and individual rights.
SW-User
@Bumbles It's not that the religions are the same, but that each [i]can[/i] inspire people differently. Maybe some are more able/likely to inspire "liberalism" and individual rights than others.
Bumbles · 51-55, M
@SW-User Yes, I think that's right!
SW-User
@Bumbles Yes, you made me adjust my opinion just a bit.

 
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